Any treatment of a disease involves drugs and these drugs are required to have specific amounts to be taken i.e dosage.

DOSAGE: The intake of any medicine or some therapeutic agent in prescribed manner is known as dosage. There is a certain gainsay in drug manipulation. It depends on the need of the patient. Not only the patient, but the challenge is present with a peculiar drug as well, as far as it's composition or ingredients are concerned.

There are dissimilar compositions of drugs and thus it should be taken accordingly. Doctors and Pharmacists thus prescribe accordingly with the idea of patient's concern.

Overdoses or the dose in less than the required amount can leave the body with serious issues. The drug intake varies. Some drugs are taken orally and some are applied on the skin.

All drugs work differently. Some, as per the body requirements, go well externally and some need to target micro organisms or a particular target internally to cure diseases.

Keeping all these things in mind there exists some valuable modes of dosage. These modes help us understand the basic need of a particular drug. In how much quantity a drug should be taken, when the drug should be taken that is clearly explained not only by the prescriptions but also on the labels of drugs which help us deal with drugs in a better way.

There are ways to use drugs that includes: swallowing, smoking, snorting, through suppositories and injecting.

Moreover, the drug delivery or the modes of dosage denotes the ways of transporting a drug or therapeutic agent into the body. This involves drug target within the body.
There exists a thorough classification of dosage.

So, here are the MODES OF DOSAGE:

• Oral
• Opthalmic
• Inhalation
• Parenteral
• Topical
• Suppository

Oral:

The oral mode of dosage involves pills, tablets, capsule, syrup etc. Natural or herbal foods also come under the same category.
Tablets, are there in solid form of dose of medicine.
Suspensions are the medications that are in a powder form that becomes liquid after adding water to it.
Capsules, suspensions, solid crystals are used for various treatments like that of when there is requirement of treatment inside the body.
The drugs are taken in the solution, capsules, or tablet forms so that it can target the particular micro organism and help in curing an illness.

Ophthalmic:

This includes drops, liquid solutions and some ointments too.
Ointments are the dosage form which are used for dermal purposes. Creams are the dosage which is used for dermal purposes and with aqueous base.

Elixirs:

These include drugs with alcohol solutions.

Sprays and Inhalers:

These are taken through nose or mouth. The medicines inhaled by mouth or nose fall under the Inhalation category.

Parenteral :

This form of dosage involves subcutaneous (skin layers), intramuscular, interosseous, intradermal, etc. medications.

Topical:

It includes creams, ointments, balms, lotions, eardrops, vaginal rings, powders, etc.

Suppository:

The suppositories include vaginal, rectal, urethral, nasal, etc. medications. Suppositories are basically solid formed drugs that melts upon insertion into vagina or rectum.
The drug usage is systematically designed in order to eradicate the ongoing issues of misuse of drugs, overdoses, etc.
It is helpful for a customer to properly understand the working and need according to the illness in order to access the drugs and should be taken under the prescription of the physician.

There are certain products from the Alvizia group which prepare many of the above mentioned drug dosage forms. Ointments, oils, tablets, capsules, suspensions, gels, ear/eye drops, lotions, powders and many more products are immediately available at the Alvizia pharmacy.

The products are best suited for all kinds of treatments. With proper mention of intake of drugs, the medications become more helpful to the patients. Not only this, many natural or herbal medicines (in all dosage forms),are too available at Alvizia.

Dosage is an important part of any illness treatment process. It is not just according to the drug ingredients but also to the requirement of the patient body.